Quotes About Tragedy

History is moving, and it will tend toward hope, or tend toward tragedy.

It's a time of sorrow and sadness when we lose a loss of life.

The pictures of airplanes flying into buildings, fires burning, huge structures collapsing, have filled us with disbelief, terrible sadness and a quiet, unyielding anger. referring to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon

Thousands of lives were suddenly ended by evil, despicable acts of terror. referring to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon

our lives are best understood, and our sorrows are best borne, when they are recognized as "playing" within a drama that God himself entered, in the person of his Son, so that the human drama might become, through the redemption, a divine comedy, not a cosmic tragedy or absurdity.

The fact that we are I don't know how many millions of people, yet communication, complete communication, is completely impossible between two of those people, is to me one of the biggest tragic themes in the world.

Human tragedies are always simple when we reconsider them in retrospect.

I thought of all the women on the Titanic who had refused dessert." Carrie's

An American tragedy in which we all have played a part. (On Watergate, announcing pardon of former President Richard M Nixon)

So war is an extremely sad business, because the majority of people don't want to be in it.

Decidedly, the stories that turn the tribes tragic are not their own stories.

Sep-11 2001, revealed heroism in ordinary people who might have gone through their lives never called upon to demonstrate the extent of their courage.

He did not turn. Embracing his sister, he stepped off the bank, onto the ice. He walked out into the centre, where the ice was thin. His sister's head lay on his shoulder. They stood there for a moment, as the ice groaned and cracked. Then it gave way.

Most people go on living their everyday life: frightened, half indifferent, they behold the ghostly tragi-comedy that has been performed on the international stage before the eyes and ears of the world.

Of all calamities this is the greatest.

Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.

Humor enables one to live in the midst of tragic events without becoming a tragic figure.

Give me my Romeo; and, when he shall die. Take him, and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine, That all the world will be in love with night, And pay no worship to the garish sun.

Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn!

Soprano, basso, even the contralto Wished him five fathom under the Rialto.

A plague o' both your houses.

Newspapers have developed what might be called a vested interest in catastrophe. If they can spot a fight, they play up that fight. If they can uncover a tragedy, they will headline that tragedy.

Giving up is the ultimate tragedy.

The world is a comedy to those who think; a tragedy to those who feel.